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The school board has given the go ahead to to administrators to start making contingency plans. By law, the union has to give CPS 10 days before it strikes. CTU President Karen Lewis said negotiations would resume on Thursday. Lewis wouldn't say if the sides are close to an agreement. The union's "Big Bargaining Team" voted to reject a district offer in February this year that proposed a four-year labor agreement with a salary increase over the life of the contract. (more...)

Rescue workers and fishermen said they had rescued at least 169 people, but uncertainty remains over how many might still be missing. Ali Abelsattar said 33 people, including the body of a four-year-old boy, were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday. (more...)

Reuters reports at least 44 people have died, 37 protesters and six police officers. Congo, Africa's biggest copper producer and a source of other key minerals including cobalt and tantalum, has never had a peaceful transition of power. Protests erupted after the constitutional court ruled in May that Kabila, who took power after his father, Laurent Kabila, was assassinated, could remain in office in a caretaker capacity beyond his mandate. (more...)

However, that didn't stop Trump from criticizing every part of the debate that made him look bad, except for himself. Fox News Channel grabbed the biggest cable audience with an average 11.4 million viewers, early Nielsen data showed. (more...)

Mecklenburg's jobless rate was unchanged at 4.7 percent. The rate last month also was lower than the August 2015 rate for Janesville of 4.9 percent, and it's the fifth straight month during which local unemployment has been below 5 percent, according to state data. (more...)

This frame grab from video provided by C-SPAN2, shows the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington , Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, as the Senate acted decisively to override President Barack Obama's veto of Sept. Lawmakers "want to help the 9/11 families but there could be some real consequences to us as a nation if we don't think this thing through". The only senator to vote against the override was Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada. (more...)

For the concision, coherence and clarity that make a crisp debate performance , Trump's answer left a lot to be desired. What is the structure for the debate? Brew yourself a strong coffee or tea on Tuesday morning, when the first presidential debate gets under way in a NY university; it will be late on Monday in the United States and the beverage of choice is likely to be something stronger, differently aromatic. (more...)

Rose, the 36-year-old Brit, has a 9-3-2 record over three Ryder Cups with a six-match winning streak. The Americans are back to their "pod" system that Paul Azinger used in a rare victory in 2008 and Love modified in 2012. But here he is, determined to show he's a team player and eager to do whatever he can to help the Usa break a losing streak to Europe in the hotly contested team event. (more...)

The two biggest hospitals in rebel-controlled parts of Aleppo have been bombed in what non-government organisations and residents say are deliberate attacks by the Syrian regime and its Russian allies to eliminate these structures. Sahloul said that one child who was in an ambulance died because he was not able to receive treatment during the chaos. Nine children were killed Tuesday during airstrikes on the rebel-held al-Shaar and al-Mashad neighbourhoods, according to the Syrian ... (more...)

Two women who were pulled out of the debris by rescuers are said to be in a stable condition. Video footage shared on local media showed huge plumes of water and rock pouring down a mountain towards houses and buildings in the valley below. (more...)

The scandal helped derail Christie's bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and could endanger his best chance at a political future: a role in Donald Trump's administration should the Republican presidential candidate win a November 8 election. (more...)

For the first few decades, political scientists maintained that the presidential debates had little real impact on the outcome of the election. Democrats fume that Trump is graded on an curve, and there's no doubt the bar for him is lower than it is for Clinton . (more...)

NWS says a long duration of rainfall will impact Central Pennsylvania through Friday, with 3 to 5 inches of rain expected in some areas. "These next few days will be a unsafe time, requiring more than the usual awareness, planning and preparations", the agency said in a flood watch at 12:28 p.m. (more...)

Specifically, the judges said , he "exercised joint control over the attacks" by planning, leading and participating in them, supplying pick-axes and in one case a bulldozer. Mr Al Mahdi's admission of guilt, and the fact he showed honest repentance and provided a detailed account of his acts. Mahdi and other militants occupied the city, enforcing Sharia law, until it was freed by French forces in 2013. (more...)

With three more member states announcing their decision not to attend the SAARC summit to be held in Islamabad on November 9-10, it is likely the meet may be cancelled. In its message to Nepal, Bhutan, while reaffirming its strong commitment to the Saarc process and strengthening of regional cooperation, noted that "the concern of the Royal Government of Bhutan on the recent escalation of terrorism in the region, which has seriously compromised the environment for the successful holding of the ... (more...)

A group of senators pledged to find ways to improve the measure during a post-election, lame-duck session of Congress, but an override of Obama's veto scheduled for Wednesday appeared all but certain. "The U.S is more vulnerable than nearly any other sovereign because we have more property spread around the world, therefore something that can be used to satisfy foreign judgements". (more...)

A successful override requires support from two-thirds of lawmakers in both the Senate and House of Representatives, which are controlled by Republicans. As always, it's up to activists to push relentlessly for policies of human rights and peace instead of the current ongoing U.S. -Saudi partnership for barbaric repressive militarism. (more...)

The legislation gives victims' families the right to sue in U.S. court for any role that elements of the Saudi government may have played in the 2001 attacks. And other countries agreed to do that because the U.S. reciprocated with them. Johnson said most veto overrides happen toward the end of a president's tenure, when his political power is weakest. (more...)

For the first time during his tenure, the United States Senate overrode President Barack Obama's veto of the bill that would allow families of 9/11 victims to file lawsuits against countries believed to harbor terrorism on Wednesday, leaving only a vote by the House of Representatives to pass the controversial measure. (more...)

Earlier on Wednesday, the Senate voted 97-1 to override the veto. The House will have the final say later this week when it votes on the override, though no exact date or time has been announced. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., voiced his numerous concerns with the bill before the vote but chose to override the president's veto anyway. There's been talk about the principle of "sovereign immunity" and how this bill might erode that principle. (more...)